Built-In Functions and Syntax › Tomorrow

Tomorrow

Returns tomorrow's date in the format requested.

Syntax:

►►─┬─ TOMORROW ───┬─ ('output-date-format') ──────────────────────────────────►◄
   └─ TOMMORROWX ─┘

Invocation names:

TOMORROW
TOMORROWX

Parameters:

TOMORROW/TOMORROWX

Invokes the tomorrow function. TOMORROWX returns a date that contains the century portion of the year.

'date-format'

Specifies the output date format. Output-date-format can be:

• 'C' for calendar
• 'E' for European
• 'G' for Gregorian
• 'J' for Julian
• The name of a user-defined variable data field containing the date format

Examples:

Example 1

In the example below, the tomorrow function is used to display tomorrow's date in the calendar format (where today is March 17, 1996):

Statement:
    compute sys-date = tomorrow('c')
Returned value: 031896

Example 2

In the example below, the tomorrowx function is used to display tomorrow's date in the calendar format (where today is March 17, 1996). The returned date contains the century portion of the year:

Statement:
    compute sys-date = tomorrowx('c')
Returned value: 03181996

Note: In the example above, SYS-DATE must contain the century portion of the year.